Commuting a long way or traveling for work gives employees a lot of time to themselves in the morning and after their shift. It’s in these private moments that workers stew on their career responsibilities, their manager’s biggest downfalls, and the coworker drama brewing in the break room. Getting away from the office is a critical moment for many workers as it offers a space of mental clarity and perspective on the injustices of the workplace. Within this headspace of pristine clarity, angry email drafts are written, and revenge quests are fortified.
For this traveling employee in the next story, who had hours upon hours to stew on his displeasure with the accounting department, time spent on the train was going to be time spent crafting a perfectly infallible petty revenge plan, which would be entirely based on the company’s Travel & Expenses policy handbook.
Perhaps they should have considered being more lenient about the rules when it came to his £20 expense reimbursement, because this is going to cost them tenfold.



